For Jay Mendell's book on overcoming stigma in fund raising, please surf to http://black-sheep-library.com/order-now-black-sheep-fundraising.htm  That's Black Sheep Fundraising: Obtaining Dollars Despite Stigma and Prejudice toward Abortion, AIDS, Alcoholism, Birth Control, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Drug Abuse, Eating Disorders, Gambling, Homelessness, Homosexuality, Mental Disorders, Partner Violence,  Sex Education, Teenage Pregnancy, the Unemployed, the Ex-Offenders, the Illegal Immigrants, the Juvenile Offenders, the Elderly, and Other Outcast Causes .

The address of this page is 
http://GollyGrantsOnline.com/6931 Earned Income for Nonprofits Spring 2005.htm .
Please check this web page frequently for new, appended, material

PAD 6931: Special Topics
Earned Income for Nonprofits

Mondays, 6:00 p. m. to 8:50 p. m.
From January 10, 2005 to May 2, 2005
Room 910, HEC

Hello. I'm Jay Mendell, Ph. D., professor of nonprofit management in the School of Public Administration at FAU. Here's how to reach me.

Required materials

Venture Forth!: The Essential Guide to Starting a Moneymaking Business in Your NonProfit Organization by Rolfe Larson

You will need the required text, Venture Forth!, in the second week. If you are short on cash, send your kids to school barefoot, starve yourself, or feed garbage to your dog, but buy the book and bring it to class.

The book is organized around worksheets. You can and must download blank copies of the worksheets (Microsoft Word .DOC files). 

Worksheets from Venture Forth!, a now-and-then link (http://www.wilder.org/pubs/workshts/pubs_worksheets1.html?245vfb)

Attendance.

This is not a distance learning course. You do not get to mail in your involvement. No, for every scheduled class, you show up alert and on time and stay until the end. I do not get paid by the head, so if you know you are not going to be prompt and present and awake, please go find another course, I'm asking you nicely.

There is work to be done in small groups, and if you are absent, you impede your group's progress. So I have decided to penalize you for every absence but your first. That first absence is best conserved for longstanding business appointments and trips you cannot wriggle out of, military service, and illness.

What about excused absences?

It's university policy to make accommodations for religious holidays, if you tell me in advance you will be absent. "Accommodation" means I will not count you as absent.

I might excuse you for illness, providing you have not already racked up an absence for  frivolous reasons. For instance, if you wind up in the hospital for a week and can prove it, I’ll try to accommodate you. But if you go on your honeymoon and skip a week of classes, and later in the term you end up in the hospital, I might lower your grade in the course on the grounds that you established in the first instance that you are not a serious student. (You can file an appeal and see how far you get.)

The rule is that every unexcused absence after the first costs you ojne-third of a grade. That is, a course grade of A becomes an A-, a grade of A- becomes a B+, and so forth.

If you come up to me and say, "I have got to skip class next week to [insert your lame excuse here]," and I reply, "Okay," this does not mean I have excused you. It just means I have decided not to abuse you in front of the class.

Being late is often mistaken for being absent, and leaving early is certainly and absence. 

E-mail.

In the subject line of any e-mail you send me, you must state "I am your student this term in PAD 6714," or I may mistake your message for junk mail.

Failing to pick up work.

If you are not here when I return your graded work, I will toss it into the trash. 

Printed work.

I want your work to look terrific.  Use sharp, black fonts. Write or print your name on every sheet of anything you turn in, in the upper right corner, unless the syllabus instructs you differently, and indicate which homework you are turning in.

I want everything that you generate to be easy to read, and this means printed in 10-, 12- or 14- point fonts. No strange colored, strange sized paper, please. You are not writing a diner menu.

Don’t turn in anything you would not wish to have tacked to the wall, posted on the web, or duplicated for fellow students to study as a good or bad example.

Required materials.

If I tell you to buy something or download something, I mean do it tomorrow.

Overview

This course is about setting up a profit-making business within a nonprofit organization, with emphasis on marketing analysis.

The first part of the course will cover the terminology and concepts of marketing and management. By leaving out what is unimportant, I can cover the M. B. A. in a month. I will prepare you to go forth and interview the managers of nonprofit business ventures. Be here.

In the second part, you will go forth in teams of two, to interview the managers of gift shops in local museums, zoos, and botanical gardens.

In the third part, you will find your own venture within a nonprofit and complete a series of interviews.

Links

1. Here is a list of zoos (http://www.floridasmart.com/attractions/zoos.htm)
2. Here is a list of botanical gardens (http://www.findingflorida.com/Florida_Botanical_Gardens.asp)
3. Here is a list of museums (http://www.flamuseums.org/fam/resources/)

In the first few weeks we have to tear through the book to make sure you can fake an understanding of the meaning of all the terms, even if, at first, you do not fully understand them.

Since you are going to have to interview the managers of nonprofit gift shops, we will have to drill you on interviewing techniques. The interviews are apt to be tricky for several reasons.

First, they are organized around the worksheets, which means you have to master the terms and concepts before you do any interviewing, keeping in mind that you may have to explain the terms.

Second, you cannot do your interviews all in one day. You have to space them out over several weeks, without wearing out your welcome.

Third, the worksheets are intended to guide work in progress, but you will not be doing contemporaneous work: you will be reconstructing retroactively. And it is highly unlikely that they actually used the techniques in the book, so you will have to pose retroactive questions.

I will have to drill you on these techniques.

Posted 2005-01-13

Gail Vorsas has reminded me that there is no class on Monday 2005-01-17, as it is a university holiday.

Posted 2005-02-08

Spring break runs from Monday, March 7 through Sunday, March 13.

Posted 2005-02-21

My summer schedule

PAD 6714-001/12158, Seminar/Computer Systems in PA, Location:  Tower  Day/Time: W 6:00-9:10 PM

PAD 4202-001/12140 , Funding Nonprofits Location:          Davie Day/Time: S 9:15-12:50 PM

Posted 2005-03-11

BusinessTown.com has an interesting tutorial on basic accounting.

Posted 2005-03-13

Mandatory attendance will end on Monday, 25 April 2005 -- or sooner, if a report has been prepared for Ms. Gentile.